



n),and wernl private perrons had 



|.ur|M.M-. The 11. mnl of Aldcr- 

 ..1 the sloyd in I ho 

 I.M.N in i7rt. In Got hen bu iy i I hn 

 intY.*i i-l x m l' ' ; d llvt> 



years litter it WHS taught in nil t 



-ted 111 tcarllilli: the 



UN trades. In Stockholm 



;i:il manual- 



ili li.it hen- 



].-. Norkopmi;. LinkOping, 



i other town-, tin- educational 

 il from the <-ut sot. 



'Ill- method 



of in-.- it. Though 



upulsorr subject. th< 



.lit of a posMi.le 



8.800. which have introduced tin- teaching <>f the 

 U the Nils College, established 



I 

 (1.060 of them lit-ini: ^ 



In Norway the Storthing of 1806 accepted the 



pIOpO*in'M of tin- <iovernment, anil decided to 

 . every public sehi.ol in which -lV'l was 

 taught tin- 'sum "f HI knuier. The >1<>\<1 is 

 taught in 6 public normal coll.-^--. ami also at 

 the Fr.-dr vd-fo reninu r > Arbeidskolc 



iKredrickshiill Sloyd Association Working 



lh.> instruction in all the school 



-l.iyd.Hiid the pupils who have had at l.-a-t 



two hundred hours' instruction ami have done 



luired amount of work receive a special 



ii of this fact in their diplomas. Aceord- 



he new Norwegian school law, the sloyd 



is compulsory for boys of the age of twelve 



year*, and Optional fr yoim-er or older pupils. 



itute of May. lsi6. manual work was 



for the country schools of Fin- 



land, and optional for the city sohooN. In all 



teachers' seminaries some manual work is taught. 



In the public schools there are many woman 



... .:- - ha ,. !, .en arrani:"d 



f..r f. Finni"h BusbillningssallsKap 



encourage* this work by pvinu y.-arly stipends 

 and distributii md drawings. 



Kdu / in Den- 



mark. In the Hiiiumn of IHK") ., Danish Sloyd 

 Union was formed, which assisted the estal-li-'h- 

 ment of a Teacher- - hool in <'..p.-n- 



ham.and the intr. -duct ion of this work into 10 

 prirt- hiL'h >M-h<Hil>. rally in tic- hi-jh 



-lovil has been carried on. In 



..- IndiiHtrial Society) established a 

 larg loyd school for the children of the Kom- 

 raunmkolerne (public sch<- 



In Cir-rmany the IteiitM-hcr \'--r.-in fiir er/ieh- 

 lisch* KnalM*n>han<lar>NMt ((ierman ASS,,, 



r Kduraiional Mnnunl Work for I 

 JJJSRyKT saeeesiiftil in its propaganda in 



movement, especially so 



MO consideration the consenrati-m that has 



v,t| among Oermm The 



pfnmnt of Prussia, Saxony, and Alsace- 



ut>* hare jriren both moral and material 



to the r*tom. Sloyd *-hools have been 



itM in many citien. and the German Gov- 



prnm^nt which T<^rly calls a congress of the 



- !;i ,; 



In ootbeni Austha-Hangary. and in Bohemia, 



the movement haj progres* pidly. The 



sl\d has been introdii* > >l a- an > '.< > 



in the el. 'in. !-. Ill I luilL r ar\ I In 



ffOm 1 V M. when the Mini-t. 

 Instruction issued an order that m-ini<! 



111 at least olie of the follow il 



to all the boys of the primary school 

 culture, gardening, silk cultivation, 01 



!^M manual I rainini; wa- made compul- 



md in 'the 



Normal College ..f 1 h a three 



.>iir-e wax inlrdu< 



In IJn-xia. in the State Normal < ' 

 1'iir^r and in several oth 



hat cily. since iss| ..|,,\,| ha 

 taught. For lack" of mean* the \\. 

 greased but slowly. In the I'alli' 

 muc-h has been .(one to further the S 



in. 



' The local governments ,,f M-v.-ral ..f th- 

 tons of Swit/.rrland ha\e. durinir the past 

 -upporti-d pri\. 



About four years ago a coiiimi--ion of 1, 

 tlem. i: iy the Italian Mini-! 



Instruction to study the manual-trainii 



leinx ,,f Mill-ope, and more especially I he 



i-h sy-tem of -l"\d instruction. Fach n 



of this liody look a COUrS at Niiii 



then has personally directed a .fin rs 



at home. 



The French law of March 

 manual training compulsory in all normal n 

 well as public elementary schools. At that 

 the Fcr.le N'ormalc Speciale pour I'Kn 

 nieiit du Travail Manuel (Special Teacher 

 inary for Manual-training Instruction) v 

 tabllshed. Tliough this in-t met ion ha 



aboli-lied, the study of the subjrct ! 



ill about 1<H) s,-| 1\ of Paris. 



The olli eel's of 1 he late Liberal (io\ ,-rnil. 



I'.-lu'ium had b.-^iin to make arra' 

 inti-o.luci- the sloyd in normal and p- 

 school- when, through the election , 



impelled to ,'o out of ollicc. Th 

 if the prcs,.nt Clerical minis). 'rial parly 

 cxpr.-ssrd Ih.-ir virw* in 1 SS 7. at which time 

 lh<- Minister of Public Instruction said i 

 had I he greatest sympathy with the ni"\ 

 and i 



alter. A- a n-ult . 

 teach' ' '1'ined. all of which hv> 



v attended. Two societies 1, 



for its introduction in the public ach 



In Filmland a v.-ry active propaganda it 

 of the adoption of the Swedish sloyil h,, 

 ui. Tli- 

 ly in syrnpat hy with the ni"'. 

 many school boards have made arran^- 

 for the introduction <,f the sv-ten 

 many teachers have -tudie,! at S'iiii-. 

 i ve been oru'alli/e<l by t h" 



in the matter. The new school law 

 is even stronger in its i>! ' the 



:*h law. 



America! -li'.wn a deep 



est in educational manual work, and \ari- 

 f manual traininir b"\'' been inti 

 in the sehool courses, hi New ^'ork. ', 



and other \d has 



been introduced in private institutions. 



